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Re: A Linux post

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A Linux post
Date 2023-09-17 16:55 +0000
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 09:14:11 -0400, RabidPedagog wrote:

> I'm not totally surprised by that since OS/2 managed memory over the
> base 640KB a lot better than DOS or Windows 3.1 did. I remember the
> whole XMS and EMS crap back in the day and how some programs wanted one
> and other wanted the other. If OS/2 sorted that out for you, it would
> have been my choice of system had I had a decent enough machine to run
> it back then and about 8MB of RAM minimum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM

Quarterdeck was a popular add-on.

Windows has gotten better and doesn't need third party crutches to be 
useful. Sometimes it regresses, though. ANSI.sys was removed in XP, iirc. 
Most people didn't notice but we used a early version of Raima's database 
and the interface used ncurses. Some games were affected too so DOSBox had 
been developed by a third party and it supported the ANSI escape sequences 
to control the cursor.

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Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 08:30 +0000
  Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-14 08:38 -0400
    Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-15 14:14 +0000
      Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-15 10:23 -0400
        Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-17 12:26 +0000
          Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-17 09:14 -0400
            Re: A Linux post rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2023-09-17 16:55 +0000
              Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-17 20:20 -0400
                Re: A Linux post rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2023-09-18 02:10 +0000
                Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-18 08:12 -0400
  Re: A Linux post Keppi <gitfiddle22017O@hotmail.com> - 2023-09-14 14:50 -0400
    Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-14 16:33 -0400
    Re: A Linux post DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2023-09-14 17:58 -0400
      Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-15 07:32 -0400
    Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-15 14:18 +0000
      Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-15 10:23 -0400
        Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-17 12:38 +0000

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